backup-recovery

backup-recovery is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills. It costs 28 tokens per session (3,023 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

A guide to protecting and restoring data with local copies, encrypted deduplicated backups, and cloud storage. It uses tools such as rsync and Restic and covers the 3-2-1 backup rule.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to back up servers, databases, and application files; schedule backups; store copies in S3 or Backblaze B2; restore data; and verify backup integrity.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of permanent data loss from deletion, corruption, hardware failure, or disaster by combining automated backups with tested restoration procedures.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to back up servers, databases, and application files; schedule backups; store copies in S3 or Backblaze B2; restore data; and verify backup integrity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/bagelhole/devops-security-agent-skills/backup-recovery
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills --skill backup-recovery
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,023 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 3 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00028 $0.03023
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01511
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00605
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00302

Measured 9d ago against content hash d13f55401c56, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

backup-recovery scanned grade D with 3 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

chmod 600 /etc/restic/password.txt

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

find /backup/daily -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "20*" -mtime +30 -exec rm -rf {} \;

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

curl -L https://github.com/restic/restic/releases/latest/download/restic_0.17.3_linux_amd64.bz2 \
infrastructure/storage/backup-recovery/SKILL.md · 373 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 373 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Backup and Recovery

Implement comprehensive backup and recovery strategies using rsync, Restic, and cloud storage backends. Covers the 3-2-1 rule, automated scheduling, S3/B2 backends, encryption, restore procedures, and verification testing.

When to Use

  • Designing a backup strategy for servers, databases, or application data
  • Setting up Restic for encrypted, deduplicated backups to local or cloud storage
  • Automating backups with systemd timers or cron
  • Restoring data after accidental deletion, corruption, or disaster
  • Migrating data between environments using backup/restore workflows
  • Verifying backup integrity and testing recovery procedures

Prerequisites

  • rsync installed (included in most Linux distributions)
  • restic installed (v0.16+ recommended)
  • Cloud CLI configured for the backend: AWS CLI for S3, b2 CLI for Backblaze B2
  • Sufficient storage at the backup destination (2-3x source size for retention)
  • SSH access for remote rsync targets
  • systemd or cron for scheduling

The 3-2-1 Backup Rule

  • 3 copies of your data (1 primary + 2 backups)
  • 2 different storage media or types (e.g., local disk + cloud)
  • 1 copy offsite (cloud storage, remote datacenter)

rsync Backups

Basic Operations

# Sync a local directory to a backup location
rsync -avz --delete /data/ /backup/data/

# Flags explained:
# -a  archive mode (preserves permissions, ownership, timestamps, symlinks)
# -v  verbose output
# -z  compress data during transfer
# --delete  remove files at destination that no longer exist at source

# Sync to a remote server over SSH
rsync -avz -e "ssh -i ~/.ssh/backup_key" /data/ backup@remote:/backups/server01/

# Exclude patterns
rsync -avz --delete \
  --exclude='*.tmp' \
  --exclude='*.log' \
  --exclude='.cache/' \
  --exclude='node_modules/' \
  /data/ /backup/data/

# Use an exclude file for complex patterns
rsync -avz --delete --exclude-from=/etc/backup-excludes.txt /data/ /backup/data/

# Dry run (preview what would change)
rsync -avzn --delete /data/ /backup/data/

# Limit bandwidth to 50 MB/s and show progress
rsync -avz --bwlimit=50000 --progress /data/ backup@remote:/backups/

Read the full file on GitHub · 373 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 373 lines · 28 tokens per session scan D d13f55401c56

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backup-recovery is a skill published in the GitHub repository BagelHole/DevOps-Security-Agent-Skills (1,084 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 3,023 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 3 findings (asks for root, recursive force delete, makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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